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Time Check.l

Patented Dee. 4. 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT SCHNE, OF NEvV YORK, N. I'.

TIME-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,841, dated December 4, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT SCHNE, ot the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved forkmans Time-Register; and I do hereby decla're that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, torming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, represents a. longitudinal vertical section of my invention taken in the plane indicated by the line e, z, Fig. 2. Fig. 2, is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 3, is a horizontal section of the same, the line w, Fig. l, indicating the plan of sect-ion. Fig. 4, is an inverted plan ot' the device for discharging. Fig. 5, is a horizontal section of my apparatus taken in the plan indicated by the line y, y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference in all the ligures indicate corresponding parts.

In many factories especially in large cities, where the space is limited, it happens, that the ofce of the establishment is in one part of the building and the workshop in another, and that the employer enters through another door, than those employed. In such cases and also in all cases where it is not convenient to employ an extra person for the purpose of checking the time of each employee as he enters and leaves the place, the employers, depend more or less upon the honesty of the employees, and an apparatus, which will automatically control the time of each employee as he enters and leaves the place is a great desideratum. IVith ordinary devices or this purpose the principal ditliculty has been, that every one oit them employs tickets or flat pieces of pasteboard inscribed with the name of the employee, and for this reason it has been necessary to put up the apparatus in the room, or near the passage taken by the employees, whereas the proper place for the apparatus is the otlice of the employer.

In order to enable me to put up the apparatus under all circumstances in the ofice of the employer, I have arranged the same in such a manner that I can employ balls, made of hardwood, bone, ivory or any other suitable material, and marked so that the balls of each employee can easily be distinguished. A small tube from any part of the building, provided the otlice is in the ground Hoor, which is generally the case, conveys the balls to the apparatus,

which gives the exact time of the entrance or departure of each employee. Besides this improvement I have arranged the interior of my apparatus so, that the balls can be easily discharged and collected in a little drawer in the lower part of t-he apparatus, after the time of each employee has been noted.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation with reference to the drawing.

My apparatus is arranged in and on a case A, which in its turn is placed in the interior 'of a box B, the top of which is provided with an ordinary clock dial C, of glass or any other transparent material and which has an aperture a, in the center t0 communicate with the funnel shaped cup or receiver D, of the apparatus. The cup D, is placed on a vertical arbor E, to which motion is imparted from an ordinary clock movement, which causes the saine to revolve once in twelve hours. An index Z), which is attached to the receiving cup D, travels under the dial C, and indicates the hours of the day.

The balls which may be placed into the receiving cup, are conducted through the spout o, to the cavities (Z, c, in the top plate F, of the case A. These cavities are plainly shown in Fig. 3, in the drawing. The twelve cavities CZ, correspond with the full hours of the dial-plate C, and the twelve cavities e, with the halt1 hours, so that it a ball is deposited in the cup D, at or near 7 oclock, it will roll into one of the cavities (Z, corresponding to seven, and if the ball is deposited at or near 7% oclock it will roll into one of the cavities e, corresponding to 7 oclock, etc. The end of the spout is provided with a lip (6') which forms a check to prevent the balls from rolling beyond the cavities. The cavities (Z, lead to holes f, in the top plate I?, and these holes are closed by a disk Gr, (see Fig. il), the edge of which is provided with twelve notches g, corresponding in position to the position of the holes f. The disk G, is slightly turned on its center by means of a button h, and it may be brought in such a position, that the notches g, register with the holes f, or it may be turned so that these notches come under the solid portions of the top plate E, and that it closes the holes f. The half hour cavities e, might be similarly arllO ranged, and if it is desired to discharge the balls which may have been 4deposited in the apparatus the disk G, is turned so thattlie notches g, register with the holes f, and the balls are allowed to drop through. Y

Under the disk and in the lower part of the case A, is the stationary inc-lined circular channel H, which receives the balls as they are discharged from the cavities d, and which conducts them to a drawer I, in the lower part of the case. By these means all the balls are collected by simply turning the disk G.

This apparatus can be placed into the oliice and tubes leading` to any part of the building` may be arranged to conduct the balls to the cup D, and if each employee as he enters the place of business and as he de- ROBERT SCHNE,

Vitnesses WM. SINCLAIR, CHRISTIAN ANGELE. 

